This is a special event linking the frontiers of astrophysics with the frontiers of music – in the context of Orkney’s deep past. There will be new music and the story of its creation through the inspiration of gravitational waves, and something about their background as well. And there will be news of plans for a project for next year for which this is the first step.

Leon Trimble is a digital artist who works in audiovisual performance. He specialises in immersive video and synth design and performs across the UK and Europe, at festivals from Shambala to Glastonbury, from The Big Chill to Maschina Bristronica. He has been involved with starting and running grassroots music projects.

His projects have included bouncing sounds from the Abbey Road Studios off the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon via the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope. This evening he will provide imagery and music developed around gravitational waves and their detection. He will also give some of the background to his work, and outline the vision for the next stage in his current Gravity Synth project, in a context of deep time in Orkney.

He is an Honorary Research Associate in the University of Birmingham’s School of Physics and Astronomy and also work with the astrophysics department of the University of Warwick. His love of science and technology has also led to his current collaboration with the University of Glasgow’s gravitational waves researchers, from whom Dr Andrew Spencer comes to join him in the presentation, with an introduction to the subject.

With the support of Historic Environment Scotland, Stagecoach, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, and the Institute of Physics in Scotland.

Numbers limited: booking essential. Tickets £8